As games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Alan Wake II, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man 2, and so many more marked 2023 as a year of instant hits and commercial success, developers were suffering. Layoffs rolled across the industry worldwide, knocking out a reported 6,500 jobs... Read more

AI video is still in its early days but the tech is advancing fast. Case in point, New York City-based Runway, a generative AI startup enabling individuals and enterprises to produce videos in different styles, today updated its Gen-2 foundation model with a new tool, Muti Motion Brush, which... Read more

The first major livestream from Microsoft Xbox takes place today and we are expecting a whole host of good stuff to be shown off during it. So it is a pretty exciting day. We can expect news from many of Microsoft’s partner studios – although Blizzard will be hosting... Read more

This Apple hack is for people like me who have had to physically hide their iPhones if they want to get any work done. We’re bombarded all day with emails, text messages, social media DMs, Slack or Microsoft Teams messages, calendar alerts, reminders, update badges and… well, you get... Read more

Alamy said that the suggestion that ingesting immortalized cells could be linked to cancer in humans was “so ludicrous as to be laughable.” “So few people have had cultivated meat or have access to it that it feels like these things that are being raised are more fearmongering than... Read more

It is in some ways the “original sin” of generative AI: many of the leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta have been trained on data scraped from the web without prior knowledge or express permission of those who posted it. AI companies who took this approach... Read more

On Monday, ChatGPT maker OpenAI detailed its plans to prevent the misuse of its AI technologies during the upcoming elections in 2024, promising transparency in AI-generated content and enhancing access to reliable voting information. The AI developer says it is working on an approach that involves policy enforcement, collaboration... Read more

A new study from BMJ Public Health shows that gamers who have the volume at unsafe levels could be at risk of hearing loss. The report shows that ”gamers who are listening at high-intensity sound levels and for long periods of time may be at risk of permanent sound-induced hearing... Read more

Picking the best antivirus software for Windows means finding one that keeps your PC safe, doesn’t take up a lot of system resources, is easy to use and stays out of the way till you need it. Here’s what to look for. Effectiveness: Antivirus software runs virus scans for known... Read more

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, devastating the ecosystems in its path. Obvious enough. But new research shows that the... Read more